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TheMakeA | 10 years ago

It sounds like what you're looking for is Business Intelligence. There are a couple of cloud tools like Chartio, Tableau, Looker, etc that provide similar functionality.

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tsenkov|10 years ago

Thanks, will check these out.

tsenkov|10 years ago

Note: I know the topic isn't on the front page, but am writing this for completeness.

I did check all of these out and as you pointed, they are all BI (Business Intelligence) tools.

What I believe will be easy-enough and useful to do with Pagehop's Team Support is to disperse simpler tools for simple checks into your production data. For example - a support person talking to a customer on the phone (representing the company BigCorp), complaining about being tricked into submitting a payment for a product feature twice. The support guy/gal can open Pagehop with Option + Space and write "pay :company bigcorp" and this would result in a list of all transactions from BigCorp.

Checking activity logs, user data, payment transactions... the list goes on and on. These are all simple queries that don't need a special visualization and almost no customization - you simply need the info, fast. This is where Pagehop shines - it's a launcher, so it's always a shortcut away from you.

Team Support would allow you to disperse these tools to your teammates automatically and keep them in-sync.

And if you are an advanced user - make a recipe to get an SQL/JSON/etc. query and display results. If I build this feature, I am definitely going to provide something default for this.

Coming to think of it - if you have a dashboard in Looker, called "Today's Stats", for example, and lets say you are having a release today - a recipe (plugin) in Pagehop (calling the API of Looker) to show you this dashboard, would be the easiest way to see how you are doing, as often as you like.

Finally, as pretty much everything else, the pricing is also hugely different between these products and what I plan to offer. For a team of 10 you need to spend thousands of $, while you would pay ~ $1k for an annual deal for Pagehop with Team Support.